Driver slams into Naples firehouse

Firefighters in Naples responded to an emergency in their firehouse after a car slammed into the station and hit a water pump.

Firefighters tell me they're used to going to the calls; but rarely do they have the calls come to them.

A car was left wedged between a Naples fire truck and the station's wall - all the aftermath of a medical emergency gone completely wrong.

"We're not use to the calls coming to us, we're use to going to the calls, it was a little different for us," said Naples Firefighter Jerald Adcock.

It happened Thursday afternoon when a 31-year-old driver from East Naples drove his sports car right through the City of Naples' downtown fire station.

"Next thing they heard was a loud boom, explosion, they sprinted into engine room and thought building was coming down," said Naples Fire Chief Stephen McInerny.

He says he believes the driver suffered a medical emergency. He was pinned in his car and unconscious when they took him out of the vehicle; then he was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition.

Adcock says he was just inside the station when the car hit.

"It was almost like a sonic boom kind of noise if you feel that," he described.

He says seconds later, the garage flooded with water from the broken pipes and one of the station's trucks suffered significant damage – nearly $25,000 worth.

"There was water going everywhere, when we came out, within seconds, 6,7,8 inches of water on the ground," Adcock said.

Witnesses say the driver was all over downtown Naples before ending up in the garage.

There were reports that he was traveling against traffic, oncoming traffic, drove through the bushes across the street, took down a stop sign," said Chief McInerny.

A sign this incident could've been even worse.

"It's much better that the accident occurred in the firehouse than say to a family walking down the street going to the beach," he said.

Officials with the Naples Police Department haven't released the driver's name; so we're unsure on his condition at this time. But they did say charges likely won't be filed against him because he suffered a medical emergency.